Hello,
Before I started the upgrade procedure I did a mysqldump with mysqldump -Q --opt -uUser -pPass DBName > cpg.sql
I backed up includes/config.php, my albums directory and the one other file mentioned. I rsynced my 1.4.4 files over the old installation and I restored the stuff I had backed up. I ran the update.php and switched the language to the original Spanish it was in. The new Spanish language file was in UTF-8 and my character encodings were latin1 so I had the accents on the CPG options horribly wrong. I changed the character set in configuration to Utf-8. Now the accents in the comments of my pictures and albums appeared as question marks. The data stored in the database was in latin-1.
I then proceeded to convert the mysqldump from latin-1 to utf-8iconv --output cpb-utf8.sql -f latin1 -tutf-8 cpg.sql
I imported the database into mysqlmysql -uUser -pPass database < cpg-utf8.sql
I received a fatal error. The database had been overwritten with the 1.3.X database. I executed again update.php and it worked correctly
My charset is now UTF-8, and my accents are displayed correctly.
Result in http://andreso.net/galeria